Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 05:26:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> To: mail@ozzmosis.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: clang options question Message-ID: <201210171026.q9HAQLRC004121@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 04:25:14 +1100 andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com>
wrote:
>On Tue 2012-10-16 10:52:36 UTC-0500, Scott Bennett (bennett@cs.niu.edu) wrote:
>
>> From looking at the clang(1) man page, it is not clear to me what the
>> difference is between the -arch option and the -march= option. Would
>> someone please summarize the difference(s) for me? Thanks much!
>
>>From the users POV, clang is supposed to be a drop-in replacement for
>gcc, where -arch is also an option. Looking online though, it would
>appear it's an Apple Darwin (OS X) only feature of gcc for generating
>universal binaries.
Oh. Okay. Thanks for the Darwin info, too. I hadn't known that
OS X had carried on NEXTSTEP's support for fat binaries.
>
>The question is a bit academic as it doesn't actually do anything in
>FreeBSD, at least not for me:
>
>$ clang -o hello -arch x86_64 hello.c
>clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-arch x86_64'
>
>$ clang -v
>clang version 3.1 (branches/release_31)
>Target: amd64-portbld-freebsd8.3
>Thread model: posix
>
>Nor in Linux (an old version, admittedly):
>
>$ clang -o hello -arch i386 hello.c
>clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-arch i386'
>
>$ clang -v
>clang version 1.1 (branches/release_27)
>Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>Thread model: posix
>
I see. So it's just decoration for compatibility with gcc and
something to worry about. Thanks very much for the response.
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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